Judiciary policies and lack of accountabillity: electronic procedure x pending cases in labour courts

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The problem we analyze in this article refers to the impacts of the digital justice on pending cases in Labour Courts, using an inductive method and statistics. The conclusion is unexpected, once it is verified that the electronic procedures did not act as a mechanism to improve the efficiency and the performance of the Courts. Because of the deficit of accountability of the National Council of Justice, there was no judiciary policy review related to these results that were not fulfilled. Therefore, it is suggested that social accountability is an alternative so that the National Council of Justice be effectively accountable about its judiciary policies.

Keywords:
Accountability; Judiciary policies; Digital justice; Pending cases; Counterintuitive conclusion